DBML is an excellent location for educational field trips, scientific research, seminars and workshops
Reservations
Please make reservations well in advance. DBML may not be able to guarantee the availability of facilities on short notice. A discount of 10% will be given on accommodation and lab fees if the bill is paid 30 days before arrival. Space can only be confirmed when payment is received. You can make a booking using the appropriate form below. Facility usage fees and rates are available here; you may also download a copy.
DBML has two residential buildings. The larger of these is a dormitory block with 8 rooms, each holding four persons (each room has its own verandah and bathroom), a large dining room/sitting room/lecture hall and a fully equipped kitchen. The block also has 2 bedsitters, each with a kitchenette. The other residential building (the Flats) contains 6 apartments with either one, two or three bedrooms. Each flat has a bathroom, a living/dining room, a verandah and a kitchen.
Bed linen, crockery, cooking utensils etc are provided, but not towels.
Investigators usually opt to buy their own food and cook for themselves. However, catering for breakfast, lunch and dinner is provided for groups, upon request. Visitors with special diets are asked to indicate this on the usage application.
Laboratory and Research
The main Laboratory building features five research rooms, an instrument room, a library/seminar space, offices, and a spacious wet lab segmented into six bays equipped with essential utilities. This wet lab includes a central wet table with varied tank sizes and additional tables and flow-tanks for experiments. The facility boasts two workshops for technical support.
Dive Programme
The main purpose of this document is to provide standards and procedures that are minimum requirements for safety during the performance of diving and hyperbaric work undertaken at the Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory.
Hyperbaric Chamber
Used to treat decompression illness caused by excess nitrogen loading of tissues due to: diving too deep, staying down too long, going down too many times in a day, not doing enough in-water decompression OR ascending too quickly while holding your breath.
For additional information, contact the Lab's Diving Safety Officer.
For hyperbaric charges/services, please see rate sheet.
The Laboratory's diving facilities are first class. Compressed air, nitrox and tri-mix (helium, nitrogen, oxygen) are available to qualified users, and there is an ample supply of scuba tanks. A double-lock recompression chamber backs up the diving safety programme.
